Pop Pop? If “microwave popcorn bag” is some kind of newfangled dirty talk, we want no part of it. Cold as the Rockies Because nothing sells an overpriced neon emblem of waterbeer devotion quite like a bad-taste origin story. PBR! Get It? We’ve just gotten word from 2006 that it would kindly like its joke [...]

“Ho-ho-ho! Only a few more sleeps ’til Christmas!” Thus spoke Santa Claus—performed by TTC Corporate Communications Director Brad Ross—on the southbound platform of Bloor subway station. It was a charming touch on a deceptively springlike Tuesday morning. Helping to distribute candy canes to subway riders was TTC Communications Advisor Jessica Martin, who is best known [...]

As perennial the first winter frost, the sign of collapsed jack-o-lanterns rotting in the alley adjacent to your apartment can mean only one thing: Christmas time is here again. And sure, it’s become kind of trendy to hate Christmas: to gripe about the commercialism and the crowded malls and the Salvation Army Santas bleating on [...]

Throughout vast swaths of the South, no veranda is complete without an old codger kicking back with some hooch and making passersby uncomfortable. Riverdale, where this front porch denizen passes the days, seems to be just close enough to the Mason-Dixon line to qualify. A local resident insisted that this handrafted handyman, equal parts kitschy [...]

Torontoist is one of fourteen cities in the worldwide Gothamist network. Each Sunday, the editors of every site—from LAist to Londonist—choose their most interesting article, a list which is compiled into the network-wide feature Elsewhere In The Ist-A-Verse. SFist saw Christmas Day turn tragic after a Siberian tiger escaped from her pen at the San [...]

In some households, hockey is a key element during the Christmas break. Skates under the tree. That long-desired California Golden Seals sweater from Santa. Fans that cannot be pulled away from the TV during holiday games and tournaments. Christmas songs recorded by a favourite player. We didn’t make the last one up. There were people [...]

Really not much on in terms of Christmas films this week. The Bloor is showing National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (which is about as far away from a Christmas classic as we can imagine without being a film about aliens from another galaxy that have never heard of Christmas) and White Christmas. We’re still happy to [...]

That headline is only slightly misleading in order to alert you to Kensington’s annual Festival of Lights, celebrating the winter Solstice tomorrow night. But we can assure you that there will be giant puppets and there will be fire, if not necessarily at the same time. Starting at 6:00 p.m, revelers will gather at the [...]

Gate House goes coed. After a series of puerile, childish, vaguely misogynistic stunts, the infamous all-male U of T residence has been come down upon by that stuffy old dean. Of note is Gate House’s claim to be an inspiration for the movie Animal House, just like every other “look at us we’re so wild” [...]

Feeling “Christmassy” yet? We aren’t either (we’ve just assumed you weren’t, apologies if you are, or something), and there isn’t that much on at the cinema yet to start ramping up the festive joy. It’s a Wonderful Life is showing at the Fox starting tomorrow and Bad Santa is going to be on at the [...]

A new study says that diseases and parasites from farmed fish are having devastating effects on wild salmon stocks in parts of B.C. Skyrocketing global demand for seafood means fish farming can be very profitable, even when the cost of frequent tractor replacements is taken into account. Brian Mulroney continues to be the centre of [...]

A longtime staple of the holiday season is a special visit from jolly old St. Nick to the nearest shopping mall or department store. Kids relish the opportunity to tell Santa that they want the latest hot toy, peace on Earth or an official Red Ryder Carbine-Action Two-Hundred-Shot Range Model air rifle, while retailers hope these gift lists translate into sales. If the establishment has hired their Santa carefully, kids will not need to...